US Edge computing provider Greensparc is looking to deploy a data center pod in Petersburg, Alaska.

The company this week announced it was proposing a small-scale data center project on the Petersburg waterfront at the former Ocean Beauty Seafoods canning plant.

“The existing 2MW transformer on the property has been sitting idle since the cannery closed in 2016,” the company said on LinkedIn. “Greensparc would put it to work.”

Petersburg is located in Petersburg Borough, near the southern tip of Alaska, close to the border with British Columbia in Canada.

The company noted the project is still in the early stages and nothing has been signed or finalized. The Petersburg Municipal Power and Light said the borough has not yet received any building permits or applications. Local press report the deployment could take up around 1,500 sq ft of the 65,000 sq ft building.

Local developer Andrew Mazzella acquired the vacant canning plant in 2024 through his Fierce Allegiance business, buying it from Ocean Beauty. At the time, Mazella said the site was set for a new tenant, with the bunkhouse used for fish processing, a restaurant, and an upstairs dwelling.

The plant was previously used by seafood distributor Ocean Beauty to produce canned salmon. The building was struck by a state-owned ferry and damaged in 2012.

Founded in 2014, Greensparc is headquartered in San Francisco and specializes in the deployment of renewable energy-powered Edge computing resources.

Greensparc has previously delivered a 170kW Edge data center to the Cordova Electric Cooperative (CEC) in Cordova, Alaska. That modular was deployed at and powered by the local Humpback Creek Hydro facility.

Greensparc is also looking to deploy an Edge facility in nearby Wrangell, some 45 miles south of Petersburg. The company is looking to develop at the borough-owned former 6-Mile Mill property, near the Six-Mile-Deep Water Port, and build a 10,000 sq ft building. The Wrangell planning commission recommended approval of the project earlier this year.